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Page 85
... sent you . But if you rightly consider , what an infinite toil it is in Russia and Swethland [ Sweden ] , where the woods are proper for naught else , and though there by the help both of man and beast in those ancient commonwealths ...
... sent you . But if you rightly consider , what an infinite toil it is in Russia and Swethland [ Sweden ] , where the woods are proper for naught else , and though there by the help both of man and beast in those ancient commonwealths ...
Page 118
... sent to the President , then at the falls , for thirty good shot ; which from Jamestown immediately was sent him . But he so well em- ployed them they did just nothing , but returned complaining of his tenderness : yet he came away with ...
... sent to the President , then at the falls , for thirty good shot ; which from Jamestown immediately was sent him . But he so well em- ployed them they did just nothing , but returned complaining of his tenderness : yet he came away with ...
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... sent us were little better , if not worse ; nor did they all , convert any of those [ natives ] we sent them to England for that purpose . So doting of mines of gold , and the South Sea ; that all the world could not have devised better ...
... sent us were little better , if not worse ; nor did they all , convert any of those [ natives ] we sent them to England for that purpose . So doting of mines of gold , and the South Sea ; that all the world could not have devised better ...
Contents
John Smith and the Promise of New England Selec | 125 |
PART | 149 |
John Smiths Written Testimony to the Commission | 158 |
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